Spoon holder



March 9 1926. H 1,576,232

A. C. COOKE SPOON HOLDER Filed Dec. 20, 1924 INVENTOR Clio UwML PatentedMar. 9, 1926 UNITED; STATES ALFRED 0. Cookie, or HARTFORD,conignc'rrcur.

SPOON HOLDER.

Application filed December 20, 1924. Serial No; 757,269.

a To' all whom a: may concern:

Be it known that I, A FRED C. GooKn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in SpoonHolders, of which the following is a spec1- fication.

My invention relates to improvements in spoon holders, of the form thatis used to hold a spoon under various conditions and in differentpositions, as in conjunction with a tumbler for medicine, or with acooking utensil, and also for holding one or more spoons when not inuse, and the object of my improvement is to produce a spoon holder ofrelatively simple form, that can be manufactured in an economicalmanner,

and that, furthermore, is convenient and ef ficient under conditions ofuse.

In the accompanying draw1ng: Figure 1 is a perspective view of mymproved spoon holder in use for supporting a spoon from the side of acooking ut-ensll. Figure 2 is a simliar view of a spoon holder of theform that is shown in Fig. 1 as applied to a side-wall andhung from ascrew, and showing a plurality of spoons supported thereby.

Figure 3 is a view corresponding to Fig. 1 showing the spoon holder asapplied to a tumbler, such as is adapted for use in holding medicine orthe like. 1

Figure 4 is a plan view of the spoon holder, on an enlarged scale.

Figure 5 is a front elevation of the same. Figure 6 is a plan view ofthe blank for the same.

My improved spoon holder is form-ed from a single elongated piece ofsheet metal and comprises a pair of downwardly extending arms 10 and 11that are connected at their upper ends by means of a generallyhorizontally directed platform 12 of appreciable length, said platform12 constitutmg the rear end or closed end portion of a forklikestructure that has the forwardly directed arms 13. Said arms 13 merge bytheir rear ends with the platform 12 and extend forwardly so as tooverhang the interior space of the supporting vessel or tumbler or othersupporting structure of like character and said arms 13 may be curved orgenerally inclined to facilitate the holding of the spoon underconditions of use.

Said arms 13 are separated by the space 14 and said space is formed orprovided in the operation on theblank for forming the arm 10, which maybe designed as the front or inner arm and which is entered. on the innerside of the supporting wall. The arm 11 is on the rear or outer side ofsaid wall. The lower ends of the arms 10 and 11 tend to close togetherso as to pinch the sup porting wall and provide a clamping effect, thearms 10 and 11 operating as spring arms. j a a The holder described isadapted to be supported from a side wall by means'of the outer arm 11,which-latter is provided with an opening 15 for engaging with thesupporting screw or the like. The inner arm '10 is provided with afinding hole 16 in registration with the hole 15 for admitting ascrew-driver to the supporting screw so that the holder may bepositively secured to the side wall 26.

In the blank the shear-cuts 17 serve to define the boundaries of thefront or inner clamping arm 10 and the two spoon supporting fork arms13. Saidshear-cuts are substantially straight and parallel for the majorpart. As shown, however, adjacent the junctions of said arms with theconnecting platform 12 there are slight semi-circular deviations 18forming notches in the opposed edges 27 of the fork arms 13. Saidnotches admit the outwardly flaring portion 28 of the spoon at thejunction of the bowl 20 and the shank 21, thus serving to determine theposition of engagement of the spoon with the fork arms 13 when theholder is used with a tumbler or vessel, the walls of said notchesserving as fulcrums for the spoon. Inthe structure shown in Fig. 1 theshank 21 extends across the platform 12 and the bowl 20 is tiltedupwardly by reason of the excess in weight thereover of the combine-dweight of the shank 21- and the spoon handle 19.

The lower end portions 29 of the clamping arms 10 and 11 engage the wallstructure 30 of the vessel or' pan 31 appreciably below the top edge 32and in the preferred holding position the platform 12 rests upon thesaid top edge 32.

The shank 21 is narrower than the bowl 20 and than the handle 19 and thespace 14 between the arms 13 is such as to admit said shank freely tostop the bowl and handle, .so that the holder is ada ted to hold andsupport a; spoon 32-? from eit er end of the latter. d

When hung from the Wall-the holder is adapted to serve as a hanger for aplurality of spoons 33 and these may be hung from either the handle endor from thebowl.

What I claim as myinvention is Aspoon holder made of sheetmeml,comprising a platform, of appreciable length for resting on the top edgeof a supporting vessel and inner and outer clamping fingers dependingfrom the inner and outer edges oi sai-d platform, a pair of spaced forkarms extended inwardl and in the same plane from the inner -ge '01 saidplatform and spaced apart for admitting the shank of a spoon, matingrecesses 0r notches in the botmdery wallsof, the space between said armsfor receiving the bowl portion of said spoon, and said recesses ornotches being a spaced .1nwardly from said lnner edge of the platform,whereby with a spoon-bowl engaged with said recesses or notches andserving as a fulcrum for the spoon the shank portion of the spoon Willbe adapted to contact with the outer edge of the platform.

o C. 'GOOKE.

